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The `paste` utility merges corresponding or subsequent lines of files.

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Text processing - join every two lines with commas

I have more than 1000 lines in a file. The file starts as follows (line numbers added): Station Name Station Code A N DEV NAGAR ACND ABHAIPUR AHA ABOHAR ABS ABU ROAD ABR I need to convert this to a file, with comma separated entries by joining…
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A better paste command

I have the following two files ( I padded the lines with dots so every line in a file is the same width and made file1 all caps to make it more clear). contents of file1: ETIAM...... SED........ MAECENAS... DONEC...... SUSPENDISSE contents of…
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Combining large amount of files

I have ±10,000 files (res.1 - res.10000) all consisting of one column, and an equal number of rows. What I want is, in essence, simple; merge all files column-wise in a new file final.res. I have tried using: paste res.* However (although this seems…
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paste files without delimiter

How do I join two files vertically without any separator? I tried to use paste -d"" a b, but this just gives me a. Sample file: 000 0 0 0 0001000200030004 10 20 30 40 2000 4000 .123 12.1 1234234534564567
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paste command: setting (multiple) delimiters

In Linux, I have the following problem with paste from (GNU coreutils) 8.13: Trying to set another delimiter than the default (TAB) results in either just printing the first character of the defined delimiter or perfectly ignoring it. Question: How…
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How to copy text from command line to clipboard without using the mouse?

I'm trying to figure out a way to copy the current text in a command line to the clipboard WITHOUT touching the mouse. In other words, I need to select the text with the keyboard only. I found a half-way solution that may lead to the full…
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How to interleave the lines of two or more files?

I have tried to get the 2 files output in a single file. I have tried below command: cat file1 file2 but here file2 data is appending to file1. What I need is file1 1st line followed by file2 first line, and file1 second line followed by file2…
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How to merge two files in corresponding row?

Now,I have two files: aaaa.txt: a=0; b=1; c=2; bbbb.txt: d=3 e=4 f=5 I want to merge aaaa.txt and bbbb.txt to cccc.txt. cccc.txt as follow: a=0;d=3 b=1;e=4 c=2;f=5 So, what can I do for this?
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How can I apply `cut` to several files and then `paste` the results?

I often do operations like paste <(cut -d, -f1 file1.csv) <(cut -d, -f1 file2.csv) which is very tedious with more than a few files. Can I automate this process, e.g. with globbing? I can save the cut results with typeset -A cut_results for f in…
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Merge alternate lines from two files

File1: .tid.setnr := 1123 .tid.setnr := 3345 .tid.setnr := 5431 .tid.setnr := 89323 File2: .tid.info := 12 .tid.info := 3 .tid.info := 44 .tid.info := 60 Output file: .tid.info := 12 .tid.setnr := 1123 .tid.info := 3 .tid.setnr := 3345 .tid.info…
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How to merge text file vertically?

Let's assume that I've got two text file a, b. $cat a a a a a a a $cat b b b b b b b Then, I want to merge these two file vertically by using paste. The merged file is shown bellow a a a a a a b b b b b b NOT $paste a b > AB $cat AB a a b b a a b…
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Is there a command can do the reverse of what the paste command does?

The paste command can merge multiple lines into one. For example, if I have a file test.txt and it contains: original text a aa aaa b bb bbb c cc ccc I can use the command paste -s -d '\t\t\n' test.txt to get: processed result a aa aaa b bb …
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How to paste output of multiple commands

I want to merge two unzipped files f1 and f2 in one command, like paste (zcat f1.gz) (zcat f2.gz). What is the right syntax?
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Select certain column of each file, paste to a new file

I have 20 tab delimited files with the same number of rows. I want to select every 4th column of each file, pasted together to a new file. In the end, the new file will have 20 columns with each column come from 20 different files. How can I do this…
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What is the correct way to merge two ASCII art files side by side while preserving alignment?

art_file (cat -A output): .::""-, .::""-.$ /:: \ /:: \$ |:: | _..--""""--.._ |:: |$ '\:.__ / .' '. \:.__ /$ ||____|.' _..---"````'---. '.||____|$ ||:. |_.' …
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